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A gripping history of China's deteriorating relationship with Hong Kong, and its implications for the rest of the world

This timely book looks at the role, survival and future of the institution of monarchy.

Jeoffry was a real cat who lived 250 years ago, confined to an asylum with Christopher Smart, one of the most visionary poets of the age. In exchange for love and companionship, Smart rewarded Jeoffry with the greatest tribute to a feline ever written. Prize-winning biographer Oliver Soden combines meticulous research with passages of dazzling invention to recount the life of the cat praised as 'a mixture of gravity and waggery'. The narrative roams from the theatres and bordellos of Covent Garden to the cell where Smart was imprisoned for mania. At once whimsical and profound, witty and deeply moving, Soden's biography plays with the genre like a cat with a toy. It tells the story of a poet and a poem, while setting Jeoffry's life and adventures against the roaring backdrop of eighteenth-century London.

The definitive account of this medieval battle

A history of Exeter

The glittering, poignant and sometimes shocking story of the love affair between two members of the Souls, the group of unconventional aristocrats at the heart of late Victorian society

From May 1940 the Children's Overseas Reception Board began to move children to safety abroad to Australia, South Africa, Canada and New Zealand.

In this fresh approach to railway history, Rosa Matheson explores the grim and grisly railway past.

The British Army were aware of the threat to Singapore and Malaya from the first days after Pearl Harbor, but they viewed the Japanese Army as an inferior fighting force, incapable of standing up to the defences and trained troops of the British.

The life and genius of Henry Royce, the outstanding, retiring, and often tyrannical founder of Rolls-Royce

The first book to examine the truth behind the legend of the Krays, written by bestselling Kray family biographer Jacky Hyams

Guildford's history dates from Saxon times, and the town has been the residence of kings and many famous men and women, particularly since Henry II turned the Norman Castle into a luxurious palace in the 12th century.

Established in the 19th century to carry passengers and freight across the Atlantic and Pacific, this is the story of the development of the company and its ships

A 'user-friendly' and up-to-date investigation of Welsh Iron Age communities, incorporating new and exciting discoveries

Fast-paced and fact-packed, this compendium revels in the history, places and people of Wales' largest county. This whistle-stop tour through the 'Garden of Wales' covers both celebrated characters and murky pasts, taking in the county's breathtaking castles, nature reserves and famous landmarks along the way.

Everything you could possibly want to know about Wales in one handy, pocket-sized book!

One man's personal travelogue of his journeys throughout BR's Western Region, Wales and the Welsh Marches during the final months of steam

Over a century of the modern touring caravan

Traditional folk tales, including history, folklore and nature observations about the rivers, streams and lakes of Britain and Ireland

Illustrated history reveals the many experiences of Mauretania (1907) across an illustrious career

Looking beyond the trappings of Stuart romance

A compendium of historical facts and figures, perfect for dipping into. Full of information that will make you say, 'I never knew that'

Cricket Banter is all the rage among the cricketing cognoscenti and the chat, the sledging and the humour behind the game is all covered here, by those boys at The Middle Stump, in conjunction with Factor 50.

Previously untold stories and unpublished photographs of Norwich in wartime

Stories of people who worked and lived on and by the Thames and its hidden tributaries flowing through London

The gruesome history of the Congo-Ocean Railway, a forgotten chapter in the story of colonial Africa

The true story of royal intrigue and a fatal shipwreck on the shores of Restoration Britain

Carole Lombard was the very opposite of the typical 1930s starlet. A no-nonsense woman, she worked hard, took no prisoners and had a great passion for life. As a result, she became Hollywood's highest-paid star. From the outside, Carole's life was one of great glamour and fun, yet privately she endured much heartache. As a child, her mother moved Carole and her brothers across the country away from their beloved father. Carole then began a film career, only to have it cut short after a devastating car accident. Picking herself back up, she was rocked by the accidental shooting of her lover; a failed marriage to actor William Powell; and the sorrow of infertility during her marriage to Hollywood's King, Clark Gable.Lombard marched forward, promising to be positive. Sadly her life was cut short in a plane crash so catastrophic that pieces of the aircraft are still buried in the mountain today. In Carole Lombard, bestselling author Michelle Morgan accesses previously unseen documents to tell the story of a woman whose remarkable life and controversial death continues to enthral.

It is more than a thousand years since the exploitation of the elephant began. Alexander the Great used them, Hannibal took them over the Alps, and Kublai Khan encountered them in India. However, it is only the last hundred years that the existence of the African elephant has been threatened. Once the 'Great White Hunters' with their special elephant guns arrived, elephants in the south of the continent were decimated. 'Blood Ivory' tells the story of how the professional hunting fraternity were the first to realise the threat to the elephant and how they kick-started the whole conservation movement. It is not a story with a happy ending as a history of the conservation movement is essentially a tale of war - colonialists at war with traditional customs; newly-independent African countries at war with one another; poachers and smugglers at war with any kind of constraint; and international bodies fighting for the suppression of damaging information. Robin Brown paints a vivid picture of the impact of hunting on Africa's elephant population and the powerful personalities of those involved on both sides of the massacre - from Cecil Rhodes to Dennis Fitch-Hatton and Edward, Prince of Wales to David Sheldrick.